IMPORTANT NOTICE TO INSTRUCTORS FROM PEARSON: October 18, 2025 maintenance information On Saturday, October 18, 2025 from 1:00 to 9:00 ET the following products will be unavailable:    Mastering / Modified Mastering courses: You and your students will be unable to access Mastering courses for the entire maintenance window.  This includes those courses integrated with an LMS.      Students will not be able to register for or enroll in any of these courses.   Instructors will be unable to create new or copy existing courses.     A maintenance notification will appear at login or when users try to access these courses.    Revel: You and your students will be unable to access your Revel courses for the entire maintenance window.  This impacts all courses, including those integrated with learning management systems like Blackboard, Canvas, Brightspace by D2L, and Moodle.    Students will not be able to register for or enroll in any Revel courses.    Instructors will be unable to create new or copy existing Revel courses.      A maintenance notification will appear at login or when users try to access these courses.    Content downloaded to the mobile app before maintenance starts will be available.    Learning Catalytics: You and your students will be unable to access this tool during the maintenance window.  The following products will remain as available, however customers may experience disruptions during the maintenance window due to infrastructure maintenance:   XL MyLab, MathXL for School, and Mastering Platform Update courses: You and your students will be able to access XL MyLab, MathXL for School, and Mastering Platform Update courses for the entire maintenance window.   IMPORTANT NOTE: Mastering Platform Update instructors may experience assignment copy and course copy issues during the maintenance window. Pearson+: Customers will be able to access Pearson+ for the entire maintenance window.  A maintenance notification will appear at login.  StatCrunch: You and your students will be able to access this tool during the maintenance window.  IMPORTANT NOTE: While these products will remain available, customers may still experience disruptions during the maintenance window due to infrastructure maintenance. Please avoid any critical assessment activity during this Maintenance.

CHG67800098 Patching notification Review • No downtime • October 2025 We will apply new security patches in October 2025 on your ServiceNow^® instances. With these patches, you will benefit from the latest performance and functional fixes as well as critical fixes that improve the safety and security of your environment. Here's what you can expect We will patch your instance(s) to the Now Platform^® versions shown below. rhody - Yokohama Patch 7 Hot Fix 2 Here's what we need you to do You’ll soon receive Change (CHG) notifications with more details on your October patching dates. Sub-production instances will be scheduled in the first two weeks of the month, production instances will be scheduled 14 days later. Please take a look at them and do the following: Review the scheduled time for each CHG to confirm it works for your organization. You can reschedule until October 31, if needed. If you have questions or run into problems when you try to reschedule, contact us by entering a comment into the CHG and our dedicated team will get back to you. Please note: Unless you reschedule your CHG, we will patch your instance on the date and time listed in the CHG. Need Help with Your Patching Schedule? If you need assistance or encounter issues with your Patching Change, leave a comment on this Change Request (CHG). Our dedicated team will respond promptly. For more details about communicating through Change Requests, refer to the following Knowledge Base article: KB1644913. We really appreciate you Thank you for staying up to date with patching. It's the best way to provide your organization with productive, reliable experiences. Questions? For more information on managing your ServiceNow instance upgrades, review KB0541128 and KB0995477. For additional resources, please reference our FAQs and follow us on the Upgrades and Patching Community. Important: Keep Your Contact Information Updated Be sure to keep your company contacts updated to ensure you continue to receive these notifications.

Top Hat will have required downtime on Sunday, Dec 15, from 2:00AM ET until 5:00AM ET.  Educators will receive notice and reminders in Top Hat. During the maintenance window, Top Hat will be unavailable and visitors to app.tophat.com will see a maintenance page. View a complete list of monthly scheduled maintenance windows in 2024 here. Top Hat has scheduled maintenance on the third Sunday of every month, from 2am EST to 5am EST

Description: To strengthen encryption standards and uphold customer trust, Microsoft is deprecating support for legacy TLS cipher suites that do not offer forward secrecy. This change aligns with our ongoing commitment to security and data protection across Microsoft 365 services. How this affects your organization: Who is affected: Admins managing Microsoft 365 services across commercial, GCC, and GCC High tenants. Organizations using legacy operating systems or custom TLS configurations. What will happen: Microsoft 365 services will only support the following TLS cipher suites: TLS 1.3 TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 TLS 1.2 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256 Connections using deprecated cipher suites will fail. Clients supporting at least one listed TLS 1.2 cipher suite will continue to connect. What you can do to prepare: Ensure all client systems are running supported operating systems that include the required cipher suites. Upgrade legacy systems (e.g., Windows 8, Windows Server 2012) to supported versions. Review and update Group Policy or security configurations to confirm required cipher suites are enabled Performed by: Microsoft Corporation

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